DARPA's Bot Pack
Video (top): Boston Dynamics/YouTube There are more. AlphaDog can stand up after lying down. Video: Boston Dynamics/YouTube And, the LS3 -- more a mule than a dog -- ca follow voice commands. And you....
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Hummingbot Inspiration: Hummingbird What's Cool About It: Slightly sinister. Equipped with a video camera, this remote-controlled spybot is an accomplished hummingbird impostor. Agile and weighing...
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Enormous Solar Eruption A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles into space...
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Building a better bot sometimes means looking outside the shop for inspiration. Borrowing from the characteristics and abilities of insects, birds, fish and mammals, scientists and engineers have...
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RoboBees Inspiration: Flies What’s Cool About It: Tiniest robotic insects built so far. A swarm of tiny robotic insects, each not much larger than a penny, has been unleashed by scientists at Harvard...
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Morphological Mars Mystery This image covers many shallow irregular pits with raised rims, concentrated along ridges and other topographic features. How did these odd features form? One idea is that...
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Ida and Moon This color picture is made from images taken by the imaging system on the Galileo spacecraft about 14 minutes before its closest approach to asteroid 243 Ida on August 28, 1993. The range...
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Moon Shadow Over Neptune In 2009, amateur image processor (and philosophy professor) Ted Stryk discovered something no one had recognized before -- images that show the shadow of Despina in transit...
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Blowing Bubbles in Trapezium This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium stars - collide with material. The Trapezium...
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Dinosaurs aren't all big and scaly. The more fossils they find, and the closer they examine them, the more scientists realize how diverse these animals were. Sure, some were massive. Some took to the...
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Crocodyliform vs. Baby Dinosaur Being a dinosaur does not mean nothing can eat you. And it wasn't just a dino-eat-dino world back in the Mesozoic Era either. The relatives of modern crocodiles were on...
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Ornithomimus
Ornithomimus edmontonicus The origins of winged flight is a hotly debated topic in paleontology. A study published last year in Science suggests that wings and feathers may have evolved in dinosaurs...
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Xenoceratops foremostensis In October Canadian scientists named a new horned dinosaur species Xenoceratops foremostensis, which means "alien horned-face." Technically this wasn't a new dinosaur...
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Nyasasaurus parringtoni If Nyasasaurus parringtoni isn't the earliest dinosaur, it's the closest thing to it that scientists have found so far. Working from an upper arm bone and six vertebrae found in...
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Bonehead
Acrotholus audeti Meet the oldest boneheaded dinosaur in North America, and possibly in the world. Acrotholus audeti was identified from two solid bone skull caps found in southern Alberta, Canada....
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Oviraptors Did dinosaurs shake their tail feathers to woo a mate? You bet your booty they did, according to a study published in January in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. The researchers reached that...
View ArticleSpinops sternbergorum
Spinops sternbergorum Spinops sternbergorum weighed around 2 tons when it was alive, but it was overlooked for decades on the shelves of the Natural History Museum in London. Curators decided the...
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